I mean NGL they used to be pretty unbiased for quite a while which was very odd considering they have direct ties to Qatar. I can’t speak for their recent coverage though and there’s probably something to be said about them falling out of favor.

This could be very interesting.

Yikes

You can do everything right that people taught you. But you only start living when you make mistakes, fuck up, and find the places where you belong, and a picture perfect life doesn’t bring you happiness; it’s rather shallow and lonely.

That paired with the realization that my mental disabilities will make me lonely for the rest of my life and there’s only so much I can do about it without having breakdowns.

then they came for the civilians. And I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a civilian.

Yeah Thomas Mann’s poem is still relevant and more people need to read it and understand it.

If you “only follow commands”, you are still implicated in every action. If you are a cop you are literally one of the checks in the system of checks and balances.

Would love some sources on that.

To my knowledge, brothers Grimm collected them and put them into text, and they were all pretty fucking horrific. Some stuff is really graphic.

The question of why kids didn’t mind comes up a lot and it had something to do with kids naturally not being able to empathize in cruelty and therefore able to basically emotionally detach from those parts. But I might be wrong on that, I don’t have sources for this rn.

Anyway, because your comment is so very different, I’d love to be wrong and to read up on it.

Yeah that’s the main thing. They have elevated on the fuck around and find out scale to the point where they arguably made way for either China or the EU to be the new global leader in economy, science, etc.

Vibe coding is such a weird phrase to begin with. Why would you admit that your app runs on pure vibes in the first place?

THIS

Try to get this in writing, or document your day-to-day with this. Focus on the retaliation, the instances they tell you how you’re supposed to spend your money and maybe get coworkers to back you up and write that down.

The more clear evidence, the better. Lawyers love when you have a bunch of evidence in writing. Especially if it’s emails or similar directly from them that prove your case.

I had such a hard time trying to start off on mastodon. Finding the right accounts to follow, getting some basic filtering, no recommendations, …

That was very difficult and uncomfortably unintuitive for me. And I am a software engineer.

I can only imagine what hell that might be for a “normie”.

I love the fediverse and all it’s platforms, including mastodon, Lemmy, pixelfed, matrix, etc. but we still have a long way to go for people to adopt them, especially if you make it hard to get started.

I personally think the issue was never the recommendations or “content milling”. It was that there was no way to change it or turn it off.

I think the best way to make it more appealing is to put in the basics of other centralized platform but show users that it’s a choice, every time.

Registration? Enable OAuth with Google etc., but show users all of the options.

Recommendations? Use open source algorithms. Or models. On first login enable it and ask them if they want it to stay enabled, changed, or disabled.

Privacy? Turn off telemetry but tell them on first login they are free to turn it on in the settings to help with development.

Donations? Just like in boost for Lemmy, this should be the bottom-most option in the settings. Dessalines deserves the support.

I think the issue was never that a platform is capable of all the things lots of people don’t like, the issue were the dark patterns of opt out and making things hard to disable. Choice is powerful when it’s truly free and transparent.

why are (some) extroverts like this?

I sometimes do this too even though I’m very introverted. I do this because I want to feel useful with the experience I gained and it just feels like a waste sitting on some knowledge and not being able to do something with it.

It’s a really cool thing if you can help someone. And some people have such a need for this, either they completely forget they were very explicitly not asked, and some will ignore it, just in the hopes they get to contribute.

Funnily enough I get to see both sides, because I also sometimes get an answer from multiple people, so I’ve learned how to handle it to some degree.

The best thing to do is not to tell them to shut up, but to acknowledge it and then explicitly say “also wanna hear from [experienced] person as well on this though.”

Tbf “our CEO went off making hitler salutes, dismantling our government and issuing shady deals with rich people” is one hell of an excuse. Probably the best one yet for Tesla.

On a serious node, I feel bad for the engineers who came there to do something great and never got to follow through on it. There’s some geniuses working there that should get more deference.

Really interesting that the headline focuses on the experts warning about it while the article highlights that even the swedish army warns about it, which is far more interesting imo.

I feel so sorry for the onion.

It’s about the dangers of misuse of AI too. That’s pretty on point I would think.

Blender is indeed really good, but depending on what you wanna do you’re at the mercy of an external renderer, which could either be EU (e.g. V-Ray out of Sofia) or from outside (e.g. Octane is from California).

That’s what I’m saying.

• 3d composition
• rendering
• particle simulation
• music production …

Yes, you might be able to do it in European software but even if you might, it always means you waste a lot more time on it. And if your job’s competitive, there’s no way you have that to spare.

Don’t get me wrong,I want things to change and I’m honestly really hopeful, but we’re not quite there yet.

Interesting read.

Phoria - saving us a riot

My comfort song :)

Also it’s very relaxing and I think that’s a good thing for my peers lol.

Madlad